[rescue] 501-2336 - SS1000 CPU Board

Richard ejb at trick-1.net
Sat Jul 16 06:45:55 EDT 2022


Yes my Ultra Enterprise 4000 has a mixed bag of CPU’s on various CPU boards and all runs good but naturally at the lowest clock rate 

> On 16 Jul 2022, at 8:23 pm, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard
> 
> I stand corrected. 
> 
> They obviously sorted this with the XX00 range where any CPU was backward compatible. Though those systems ran a clock board 
> 
> Peter
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 16 Jul 2022, at 10:10, Richard <ejb at trick-1.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Peter
>> 
>> Looking for them to match, the E boards ran the Xbus faster and are not compatible. 
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d#SPARCserver_1000 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d#SPARCserver_1000>
>> 
>> The SPARCserver 1000 is a 5U <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_unit> rackmountable chassis with four 40 MHz XDBus slots, and space for four half-height 3.5" SCSI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI> drives plus two half-height front-accessible 5.25" SCSI drives (typically used for CD-ROM <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM> and DAT <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Data_Storage>). Each system board connects to one XDBus and provides two MBus <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBus_(SPARC)> slots for CPUs, three SBus slots for I/O boards, four banks of memory (four SIMMs apiece), and builtin SCSI-2, 10baseT Ethernet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet>, and two serial ports <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ports>.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d#cite_note-1>
>> Maximum configuration: eight CPUs and 2 GB RAM.
>> The SPARCserver 1000E has a slightly faster XDBus (50 MHz). The system boards are not backwards compatible.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Richard
>> 
>>> On 16 Jul 2022, at 5:35 pm, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk <mailto:peter at ashlyn.co.uk>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Richard
>>> 
>>> Are you looking for them just to match or think the E boards will not run with non E?
>>> 
>>> I would suspect the E boards can run in non E systems but never tried it
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On 16 Jul 2022, at 00:36, Richard <ejb at trick-1.net <mailto:ejb at trick-1.net>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Folks
>>>> 
>>>> Wondering if anyone has any SS1000 CPU boards (not the SS1000E) that they would like to part with. I am looking for 2 boards.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> 
>>>> Richard
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